To Kerke the narre, from God more farre. As quoted by SpenserShepherds Calendar. (July, 1579). Douse MS. 52. 15. (1450). See Murray, N.E.D. Used by SwiftLegion Club. Note. HeywoodProverbs. Given also in Ray as French. Known to Germans and Italians.

Pour soutenir tes droits, que le ciel autorise,Abîme tout plutôt; cest lesprit de lÉglise. To support those of your rights authorized by Heaven, destroy everything rather than yield; that is the spirit of the Church. BoileauLutrin. Chant I. 185.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars. ColeridgeThe Friend.

What is a church? Let Truth and reason speak,They would reply, The faithful, pure and meek,From Christian folds, the one selected race,Of all professions, and in every place. CrabbeThe Borough. Letter II. L. 1.

Whenever God erects a house of prayerThe devil always builds a chapel there;And twill be found, upon examination,The latter has the largest congregation. DefoeTrue Born Englishman. Pt. I. L. 1. Note in first Edition says it is an English proverb. Omitted in later editions.

God never had a church but there, men say,The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,I doubted of this saw, till on a dayI westward spied great Edinburghs Saint Giles. DrummondPosthumous Poems. A Proverb.

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.God is more there than thou: for thou art thereOnly by his permission. Then beware,And make thyself all reverence and fear. HerbertThe Temple. The Church Porch.

In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the Great Hall. MacaulayWarren Hastings.

As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie times dwell neere to ether. NasheWorks. III. Have with you to Saffron Walden. Same idea in his Christs Teares. Works. IV, 57. DekkerRauens Almanacke. Works. IV. 221.

See the Gospel Church secure, And founded on a Rock!All her promises are sure; Her bulwarks who can shock?Count her every precious shrine; Tell, to after-ages tell,Fortified by power divine, The Church can never fail. Charles WesleyScriptural. Psalm XLVIII. St. 9.